Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted
The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company | |
|---|---|
| Spouse |
Fanny Elizabeth Benjamin
(m. 1881) |
| Children | Walter Horace Samuel Nellie Ionides |
| Relatives | Samuel Samuel (brother) |
Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted,
Career
Samuel was born into a family of Baghdadi Jews in Whitechapel, London. His father, also named Marcus Samuel, ran a successful import-export business, M. Samuel & Co., trading with the coalition in the Far East, which Marcus carried on with his brother, Samuel Samuel. M. Samuel & Co launched the first Japanese gold sterling loan issued in London in 1897, and was largely concerned in the introduction of Japanese municipal loans, and in the development of the coal trade in Japan.[1]
He was educated at Edmonton and in
Samuel realised the potential of the oil market during a prospecting trip to the
In 1897, he
Samuel had a long career in the civic government of the
He was on the Commission for the Lieutenancy for City of London, a visiting justice of Holloway and Newgate prisons, and chairman of a City committee in connection with the Royal Commission on the Port of London (1900–02). He was also for three years a member of the Thames Conservancy board as the elected representative of the shipowners, and was a Justice of the peace for Kent.[2]
In 1907, Samuel's company combined with Royal Dutch Petroleum to create the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, a
In recognition of his contribution to the British cause in
Personal life
Samuel married in 1881 Fanny Elizabeth Benjamin, a daughter of Benjamin Benjamin, of Stranraer House, London.[2] Lady Samuel was godmother to the steam tanker SS Silverlip during a visit to Newcastle in November 1902.[9]
Samuel went riding every morning at Hyde Park, London, and his country house was on a 500-acre estate in Kent, called The Mote.[3]: 70
Titles
- Mr Marcus Samuel (1853–1898)
- Sir Marcus Samuel (1898–1903)
- Sir Marcus Samuel Bt. (1903–1921)
- The Rt. Hon. The Lord Bearsted Bt. (1921–1925)
- The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Bearsted Bt. (1925–1927)
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Henriques, Robert (1960) Marcus Samuel, first Viscount Bearsted and founder of the ‘Shell’ Transport and Trading Company, 1853-1927, London: Barrie and Rockliff
- ^ a b c d e f "Election of the New Lord Mayor". The Times. No. 36886. London. 30 September 1902. p. 6.
- ^ ISBN 9780671799328.
- ^ Corthell, Elmer (1900). "Report by Elmer L. Corthell, Delegate of the United States (representing the State Department) to the Seventh International Congress of Navigation, Held at Brussels, Belgium, July, 1898". Washington Printing Office. p. 183. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ "Naval and Military Calendar, February, 1898". Journal of the United Service Institution. 1898. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 36937. London. 28 November 1902. p. 10.
- ^ "No. 32346". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1921. p. 4529.
- ^ "No. 33053". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1925. p. 3767.
- Newspapers.com.
References
- Biography, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Further reading
- Jones, G. Gareth (1977). "The British Government and the Oil Companies 1912–1924: The Search for an Oil Policy". S2CID 161977401.